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3/22/2005

Veteran's daughter remembers her dad

... he served in the Third Mississippi Battalion, Pat Cleburne's Division, Joseph E. Johnston's Army. "I saw a great deal of hard service," he wrote, having been in several battles including Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Kennesaw Mountain where he was captured and taken to a Union prison. The accommodations almost killed him. "I was paroled because I got scurvy so bad I had to walk on my knees and elbows."